Previous reports have suggested that nosocomial and community Legionella pneumonia cases are similar. However, community and hospital characteristics, such as aquatic environment, antibiotic pressure (usage) and populations, are quite different, leading to the suspicion that Legionella infection may differ in the two settings. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to compare demog...

a Unidad de Cuidados Intensivos Respiratorios, Hospital Clínic Universitari, Valencia, Spain b Neumología, Hospital Universitario La Princesa, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain c Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division; University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA d Unidad de Vigilancia Int...

Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Classifying the patient's pneumonia by the presence or absence of risk factors helps determine what organisms need to be considered as etiologic agents so that empiric antibiotic therapy can be initiated while cultures are pending. Medical care personnel can also use preventive strategies to...

BACKGROUND Oral antiseptics reduce nosocomial infections and ventilator-associated pneumonia in critically ill medical and surgical patients intubated for prolonged periods. However, the role of oral antiseptics given before and after planned surgery is not clear. The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the effect of oral antiseptics (chlorhexidine or povidone-iodine...

BACKGROUND Staphylococci can cause wound infections and community- and nosocomial-acquired pneumonia, among a range of illnesses. Staphylococcus aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) have been rapidly increasing as a cause of infections worldwide in recent decades. Numerous reports indicate that S. aureus and MRSA are becoming resistant to many antibiotics, which makes them very dan...

Subjects: Forty-six patients admitted to the intensive care unit with clinical and radiographic evidence of pneumonia and either two minor or one major 1993 American Thoracic Society criterion for severe pneumonia. Patients with nosocomial pneumonia, immunosuppression, acute burn injury, pregnancy, life expectancy less than 3 months, and conditions requiring more than 0.5 mg/kg/day of prednison...